“What will remain to the Alexanders, and the Caesars, and the Jenghizes, and the Louises, and the Charleses, and the Napoleons, with whose ‘glories’ the idle voice of fame is filled?”—­J.  Dymond.  “Good sense, clear ideas, perspicuity of language, and proper arrangement of words and thoughts, will always command attention.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 174.

“A mother’s tenderness and a father’s care are nature’s gifts for man’s advantage.—­Wisdom’s precepts form the good man’s interest and happiness.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 194.

“A dancing-school among the Tuscaroras, is not a greater absurdity than a masquerade in America.  A theatre, under the best regulations, is not essential to our happiness.  It may afford entertainment to individuals; but it is at the expense of private taste and public morals.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 86.

   “Where dancing sunbeams on the waters played,
    And verdant alders form’d a quivering shade.”—­Pope.

LESSON III.—­PARSING.

“I have ever thought that advice to the young, unaccompanied by the routine of honest employments, is like an attempt to make a shrub grow in a certain direction, by blowing it with a bellows.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 247.

“The Arabic characters for the writing of numbers, were introduced into Europe by Pope Sylvester II, in the eleventh century.”—­Constable’s Miscellany.

“Emotions raised by inanimate objects, trees, rivers, buildings, pictures, arrive at perfection almost instantaneously; and they have a long endurance, a second view producing nearly the same pleasure with the first.”—­Kames’s Elements, i, 108.

“There is great variety in the same plant, by the different appearances of its stem, branches, leaves, blossoms, fruit, size, and colour; and yet, when we trace that variety through different plants, especially of the same kind, there is discovered a surprising uniformity.”—­Ib., i, 273.

   “Attitude, action, air, pause, start, sigh, groan,
    He borrow’d, and made use of as his own.”—­Churchill.

    “I dread thee, fate, relentless and severe,
    With all a poet’s, husband’s, father’s fear!”—­Burns.

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

ERRORS OF NOUNS.

LESSON I.—­NUMBERS.

“All the ablest of the Jewish Rabbis acknowledge it.”—­Wilson’s Heb.  Gram., p. 7.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the word Rabbi is here made plural by the addition of s only.  But, according to Observation 12th on the Numbers, nouns in i ought rather to form the plural in ies.  The capital R, too, is not necessary.  Therefore, Rabbis should be rabbies, with ies and a small r.]